It’s not exactly like Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis relished the news but Sunday’s game (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 19) marks just the second time in his 220 regular-season games that he’s opposed a head coach that he also faced as a player and the first time in 11 years.
In his last of eight NFL seasons the Eagles’ Doug Pederson quarterbacked Cleveland against Baltimore in the 2000 season the Ravens set the NFL’s all-time single season defensive record with Lewis as their defensive coordinator.
“Not good,’ said Pederson of his experience that day in Baltimore. “ I actually cracked my ribs.